Apple tablet: One tech gadget for all — The rumored and much-hyped tablet computer from Apple could lay waste to the markets for countless other gadgets. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Apple's lips are sealed about its widely rumored tablet computer, but technology experts are giddy about the device …

About Half in U.S. Would Pay for Online News, Study Finds — Americans, it turns out, are less willing than people in many other Western countries to pay for their online news, according to a new study by the Boston Consulting Group. — Among regular Internet users in the United States …

Thanks Microsoft, Hello Google — Thanks to all the fine people at Microsoft. It was an interesting ride. Four years, 11 months, and 20 days, and I enjoyed every one of them. Well, except for the last few days, that was not fun at all. I hope I played a small part in making Microsoft …

Is Sezmi a Cable TV Killer? — I've written periodically of my flirtation with dumping cable for an Internet-only approach to my TV watching. I haven't, however, pulled the trigger-mostly because cable still has a lot of live programming, such as news and sports, that I can't replicate over the Net alone.

Russia bans Modern Warfare 2, recalls all copies of game — As everybody knows by now, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 includes an incredibly controversial level set in a Russian airport that has generated much discussion. The level has proven to be so inflammatory that the real-life Russia has acted …

How Many Droids Has Motorola Sold? — If you read the reviews, it becomes obvious that I am part of a small minority of folks who haven't been blown away by the new Droid, a Google Android OS-based smartphone made by Motorola that Verizon Wireless launched Nov. 5 in the U.S. All the accolades …

‘Magellan RoadMate 2010 North America’ Comes to App Store — Turn-by-turn GPS navigation applications for the iPhone have been a significant topic of interest since the release of iPhone OS 3.0 earlier this year enabled their deployment, and yet another of the major standalone GPS device companies has finally jumped on board.

The War For the Web — On Friday, my latest tweet was automatically posted to my Facebook news feed, as always. But this time, Tom Scoville noticed a difference: the link in the posting was no longer active. — It turns out that a lot of other people had noticed this too.

Netbooks are dead. Long live the notebook. — Netbooks were hot in 2008 and the first half of 2009, but the trend was actually more of a fad. Learn why it's over, and why that's a good thing. — Netbooks — those underpowered mini laptops with 7-inch screens and unusable little keyboards — are a dying fad.

Take Note: Evernote Raises $10 Million — Evernote is the popular note-taking service that works across any platform: desktop, web, or mobile. — On Monday morning, the always evolving service is announcing that they've raised $10 million in Series B funding, which follows their Series A round of $6 million.

AT&T Cloud Adds Compute As a Service — AT&T continues to build out its suite of cloud computing services to offer features similar to Amazon Web Services. Today it is announcing Synaptic Compute As a Service, which offers processing power that can be used for “cloudbursting” of in-house apps or as a testing and development platform.

Nokia E72 in stores now — Espoo, Finland - The highly-anticipated Nokia E72, a device tailor-made for business and personal messaging is now available in stores. To coincide with the arrival of the Nokia E72, Nokia has also released research* revealing that more people rely on email …

ASUS courting Toshiba in bid to become top-3 PC maker? — ASUS has already gone public with its plans to jump past Dell to become the number three PC vendor by 2011. Naturally, with fierce competition from all sides, the Taiwanese PC maker isn't going to achieve this by simply slapping …

Zune to launch outside US — Microsoft is launching its Zune entertainment brand outside the US for the first time, attempting to reinvigorate the music-and-movies service after failing to achieve its initial goals for the iPod rival. — The first Zune music player was released in 2006 …

Two rival supercomputers duke it out for top spot — A Cray supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has regained the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer, overtaking the installation that was ranked at the top in June, while China entered the Top 10 with a hybrid Intel-AMD system.

AT&T's Verizon Ad Battle: Who's Being Hurt Worse? — JR Raphael, PC World — Cell phone lovers, get ready to rumble: AT&T and Verizon are duking it out in an ad-based battle, and the fight isn't showing any signs of slowing down. Now, some new data suggests the public is starting to take notice.